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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2017
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Jan A. Kordel, Redmond, WA (US);
Emily Georgia Rayner, Bentleigh, AU;
Calvin Kao, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Adam Charles Jones, Port Melbourne, AU;
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
This disclosure is directed to a methodology for designing spoilers or droop panels and aerodynamic systems including the designed spoilers or the designed droop panels. The spoilers and the droop panels can be deployed on a wing with a flap system, which provides for trailing edge variable camber (TEVC) system. During flight, the fixed portions of the wing, the flaps, the spoilers and droop panels can all deform. The spoilers or the droop panels can each be pre-deformed to a first shape on the ground such that in flight the spoilers or the droop panels deform to a second shape under aerodynamic loads. In the second shape, the spoilers or the droop panels are configured to seal better against the flaps. The spoilers or the droop panels can be configured to seal to the flaps during all of the positions the flaps take as part of the TEVC system.